Todd Harris Quotes (36 Quotes)

Coach, I know you get second-guessed all week long. How come you didn't go with anything when you have two time-outs left in the half

It's too early to judge, but it certainly creates a vehicle for Dan Page to contrast himself with his opponent.

Here's the problem, ... If your people had shown a modicum of respect when you came to our events, if you hadn't come with bullhorns and been screaming, I wouldn't really have a problem with it.

Compared to others in the recall campaign, we were like choir boys.

Our internal data paints a very different picture, ... We also continue to believe that Gov. Schwarzenegger is our best messenger for the reform message and that is evidenced by the fact that we have him playing a prominent role on TV ads.

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

To say we're not strained right now would be a mistake, ... We are strained.

There were people who didn't lift a finger to help in the fight for reform who will now take great joy in pointing out what we should have done differently.

What is the point of having an election if party bosses in the back rooms can ultimately control the outcome

All politics is local, ... and an endorsement like this sends a message that Proposition 76 is not only critical to reform our state budget but that it's also critical for the financial well-being of California cities.

We are doing a huge absentee ballot and voter turnout program. It is one of the largest in the history of California politics.

This campaign is going to offer voters a choice between real reform and moving the state forward or the status quo and more of the same old broken system. I am confident that come Election Day, Californians will be voting for reform.

He has stated all along that he will do everything he can for the Republican Party and for Bush, but he will not help to raise soft money.

If he wants to shadow us around the state, telling people the Legislature are heroes, then I'll pay his gas money.

I don't think anyone would dispute that the campaign to oppose these reforms has been led by the union bosses. If anyone wants to argue that it is 96 million or 100 million, wait a few days. The unions have shown no sign of slowing down.

Schwarzenegger felt it was very important to let the people of California know this governor plans to be around for the long haul, ... It's not a 24-month job, it's a five-year job and he intends to see it through to the end.

I am shocked shocked to learn that someone living in Berkeley is unhappy with our Republican governor,

felt it was very important to let the people of California know this governor plans to be around for the long haul.

Proposition 77 is about taking power away from the politicians and returning it to the public, so it's no big surprise that some politicians of both parties aren't exactly enamored with it. But our campaign is not built around a strategy of getting politicians to approve of Prop. 77.

Californians are not happy with the way things are in Sacramento, which bodes well for whichever side is campaigning for change. Given the political environment, I would not want my campaign message to be, 'Let's leave things exactly the way they are,' which is what our opponents' message will to be.

The union bosses have spent all year saying this is an election about nothing. It provides no motivation at all for their base to turn out and vote on Election Day.

So far, this campaign has been very one-sided the only thing the people have heard about the governor's reform agenda is what they heard from union bosses. Now, they will hear from the governor and learn why he believes these reforms are critical.

Virtually every penny was spent to fight against the governor's reforms. It's very clear by watching those ads and reading the press releases that the ads were targeting the governor and his initiatives.

I don't put any stock in any of this. Right now, the public is only hearing one voice on TV, which is the voice of the special interests who are opposed to the governor's reforms.

They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the 100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.

The union bosses who control the teachers are like a bunch of teenagers with credits cards. They've simply run all around the state charging up massive debts, massive obligations.

Our team was really a combination from a variety of different teams. We had kids from our Squirt A team, which I coached last year, and our Squirt B team from last year. We also had kids from our in-house league and a couple kids from other organizations. The core group came from Squirt A, and the rest came from the other places. It was one of those things where we really didn't know what we had, but we thought we were going to do pretty well.

It often takes sometimes up to 48 hours for a television station to change your ad rotation after you ask them. Campaigns change their ads all the time to lead up to Election Day, and this is nothing more than that. We will change our rotation again before Election Day, and we will have other spots that feature the governor.

We always knew we'd be up against deep pockets. Thanks to the F.E.C., the pockets got even deeper.

All of these union bosses are terrified that the governor's reforms are going to take power and influence out of Sacramento and give it back to the people of California, ... The debate over the special election is a simple one - vote yes on the governor's reforms if you want real change, vote no if you are happy with the way things are.

The governor thrives on the momentum that he is feeling from the crowds, from the strength of our campaign.

If people are happy with the way things are running in Sacramento, they should vote 'no' across the board. But if they want to send a message that business as usual ain't going to cut it anymore, then they should vote 'yes' on all four of these measures.

There is a tipping point. We believe the union bosses have far surpassed the tipping point.

The proliferation of signs diminishes our landscape and has become a kind of visual pollution. I personally find campaign signs obtrusive, so you won't be seeing my name plastered all over the village.

Station officials said an independent research firm selected the audience to mirror local demographics. After the debate, Nunez later called it an audience that looked like California. ... a stacked deck.

We had to weather the beating that we took.